Setting a power limit without sudo

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Hello,

I’m working on a research which includes setting a power limit for Nvidia GPU cards.
I can do it using nvidia-smi -pl XX command or using NVML API from my custom build application.
By default one must call the command with power limiting as a superuser.

I wonder if there is any way of changing a GPU power limit while not being a superuser?

Is there e.g. some place in the system (some register or file) which stores the current limit value and it might be enough to just chown this directory as a regular user?

Or any other way which would not require becoming a superuser for the whole server.

Thanks in advance for your answers!

Best regards,
Adam

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Hi Adam,

Welcome to the NVIDIA Developer forums. The NVAPI category does not seem to be the right location for your question. Can you provide more information about your environment? I can then move your topic to a forum category that is a better fit.

Thanks,
Tom K